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Mitchell Bard

b. 1959

American foreign policy analyst, author

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Born 1959. Mitchell Bard is an American political scientist.

Mitchell Geoffrey Bard is an American foreign policy analyst, editor and author who specializes in U.S.–Middle East policy. He is the Executive Director of the nonprofit American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE), and the director of the Jewish Virtual Library.

Biography Bard received his B.A. in economics from University of California, Santa Barbara, his Master's degree in public policy from University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in political science from University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation was on "the limits to domestic influence on U.S. Middle East Policy". He was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Irvine from 1986 to 1987, researching the rescue by Israel of Ethiopian Jews from the Sudan, known as Operation Moses. Bard lives in Maryland with his wife and two sons.

Media career Bard is a former editor of the Near East Report, AIPAC's weekly newsletter on U.S.-Middle East policy. Before working for the AIPAC, he was a polling analyst for the George H. W. Bush for President Survey Research Group during the 1988 presidential election. He has been interviewed on Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, Al-Jazeera, The Jenny Jones Show and other media outlets.

Awards and recognition In 2013, he was on the Algemeiner Journal list of the Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life for his work.

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1959
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University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Also known as
Mitchell G. Bard, Mitchell Geoffrey Bard

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American foreign policy analyst, author

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Mitchell Bard was born in 1959.

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Mitchell Bard is a political scientist.

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